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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Part9: Cebu-Bohol Trip (Day4) - Balicasag and Virgin Island Escapade

Aside from extreme adventure and land tours in bohol, one of the best attraction here is the balicasag tour. Balicasag Island is best for diving and snorkeling. The best time to do this is early morning with Dolphin watching first, but because this is not part of the plan, we end up doing it in the afternoon (just did swimming and beach bumming in the morning).

Balicasag Island

Cool blue seawater of Balicasag Island, it takes about an hour to reach it from Dumaluan Beach, maybe shorter travel time if you'll be coming from Alona beach.

Ask directly from boatmen for this tour and not from the resort. It is much cheaper. It was offered to us at Php 2,000 by the resort. I would like to thank Kuya Gilbert from Whites and Greens for being so hospitable even if I didn't stay at their resort. He gave me Kuya Doro's contact number too. Once you reached Balicasag Island, you still need to rent snorkeling gear and boat for your snorkeling. There's no electricity here during the day. Our boatman is not allowed to guide us to the snorkeling area, there's another organization/operators in Balicasag doing it. Many species of fishes and beautiful corals are waiting for you here. I so love Balicasag. :)

hi, is it possible to do the dolphin watching, island hopping, and panglao tour (bee farm, hinagdanan cave, etc.) in just one day? or until maybe 5:30pm of that day to be exact because we still need to go back to cebu for our flight. thanks a lot. :)

I haven't tried everything in panglao tour but dolphin watching and island hopping will take you about half of your day (depending on how long you will be staying in virgin island and snorkeling in balicasag) so it's important to watch your time. Of course you still need to have your lunch, so kindly ask the car rental how many hours the whole panglao tour will be finished. I've only checked bohol bee farm in panglao tour because like you we also need to get back to Cebu. Our Bee farm experience took us more or less 1 hour.

thanks a lot adventurosfeet :) we decided to just have the countryside tour for our first day for 1,800php with a target of 12 spots including bohol bee farm and hinagdanan cave then dolphin watching and island hopping for the 2nd day. If time permits, we may also try diving but according to the dive shop that I'd asked, they normally start their dive session at 9:30am. :( we'll just try the E.A.T. Danao activities next time we visit bohol.

By the way, do you have any idea on how far Taoist Temple from Sampaguita Suites would be?

This is a wonderful and informative blog! Your blog has inspired the travel IT that I am making for our trip in May.

I have one question po. How long did it take for the Balikasag and Virgin Island Adventure? What time did you guys get back to the beach resort? We havn't decided if we head to the pier after or spend another day at the beach before heading back to cebu.